Under what condition is the median a better measure of location than the mean?

Glencoe Algebra 1, Student Edition, 9780079039897, 0079039898, 2018
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Chapter10: Statistics
Section10.4: Distributions Of Data
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Under what condition is the median a better measure of location than the mean?

 

  1. When the underlying data distribution is normally distributed
  2. When the sample size is greater than 30
  3. When the sample size is less than 30
  4. When the underlying data distribution has an observation with a z score of 5.50
  5. When the standard deviation is the better measure of variability
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